Image Processing Language. Phase 1

Abstract

The demand for image processing activities in military, industrial, and academic communities has greatly increased and has resulted in a deluge of different image architectures, operations, and notation systems. A standardized, mathematically rigorous, efficient algebraic system designed specifically for image manipulation does not exist. This report, Image Algebra, Phase 1, develops a standardized mathematically structure for the basis of image processing algorithms and techniques. The report presents the development of ten underlying basic or elemental operators from the perspective of both mathematical and machine implementations. Seven elemental operators are familiar: addition, multiplication, division, translation, rotation, maximum and reflection. Two operators are projections for extracting image from the domain and range. The tenth operator, the existential operator, allows the formation of an image. The elemental operators are in-turn used in image algorithm oriented macro-operators and spanning capabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA204232

Entities

People

  • Charles R. Giardina
  • Edward R. Dougherty

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Vision
  • Databases
  • Detectors
  • Digital Images
  • Identification
  • Image Processing
  • Images
  • Mathematics
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Real Numbers
  • Recognition
  • United States

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Systems Analysis and Design